m6A-modified circRAPGEF1 与IGF2BP3的相互作用 通过重编程阿斯巴酸代谢促进肝细胞癌的进展
Juanyi Shi1,2,3, Sintim Mui1,2, Yongcong Yan1,2
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China.
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
|August 13, 2025
概括
像circRAPGEF1这样的循环RNA为肝癌干细胞 (LCSCs) 提供燃料,并促进肝细胞癌 (HCC) 的生长. 向circRAPGEF1可以提高HCC治疗索拉芬尼的有效性.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 生物化学 生物化学
背景情况:
- 肝癌干细胞 (LCSCs) 驱动肝细胞癌 (HCC) 的进展和治疗阻力.
- 循环RNAs (circRNAs) 在调节LCSCs中的作用尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 研究LCSCs中circRNAs的功能和调节机制.
- 为了确定HCC的新型治疗点.
主要方法:
- 循环RNA微阵列分析以确定LCSCs中差异表达的循环RNA.
- 功能性试验,以评估circRAPGEF1对HCC细胞干细胞,增殖和瘤发生性的影响.
- 涉及m6A修饰,RNA结合蛋白相互作用和代谢途径分析的机制研究.
- 在体内研究使用纳米颗粒介导的siRNA传递来准circRAPGEF1并评估索拉芬尼的敏感性.
主要成果:
- 鉴定出CircRAPGEF1是一种LCSC丰富的circRNA,在HCC组织中升级调节,并与患者生存率差相关.
- CircRAPGEF1的过度表达增强了HCC的干性,扩散和瘤性.
- 通过METTL3介导的m6A修饰稳定了circRAPGEF1,破坏了IGF2BP3/ASS1mRNA相互作用,导致ASS1降解和酸盐积累.
- 用siRNA纳米颗粒准circRAPGEF1,使HCC细胞对sorafenib敏感.
结论:
- 一个新的调节轴 (METTL3/circRAPGEF1/IGF2BP3/ASS1) 被确定,通过阿斯巴酸代谢重编程驱动HCC干.
- CircRAPGEF1作为预后生物标志物和治疗点,可以提高HCC中的索拉芬尼的疗效.
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